Workers Press no. 22

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 22 • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1969 PRICE 6d. Second statement by A warning to all trade unionists

SWINDON

the All Trades Unions

BY-ELECTION

Alliance miners' section Thursday, October 30

MINERS WERE

What next Help is urgently needed in the YOUNG

SOCIALISTS'

campaign for candidate Please contact Central Committee Room: for the Sa Milton Road, Swindon phone. Dwindon LUD/l Y.S. march miners? for Swindon

BETRAYED

Cal demand agent the toy National Coal candidate Board cal demand of aine the. chairman, with Wilson and the government That demand was nation By Peter Read backing him, has an defeat that WITH the Swindon by-election only two days threatened the miners brought away, the Young Socialists nine months' cam- they do not return to with closures Sovere neat bil tor national- paign for candidate Frank Willis has ization. THE DECISION of the Yorkshire area council moved into its final stage.

work. of the National Union of Mineworkers to re- A 250-strong YS demon- une suracemes Hours commend a return to work without the eight- is a matter of principle. It with stration marched through thous surtacemen is more man Just year; swindon on saturday intolerable unal lOW-

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another sell-out by a union leadership.

paid workers in arduous stopped Passers-by It is one of the first By an industrial correspondent the marchers,

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 22 • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PRICE 6d. A warning to all trade unionists Second statement by

SWINDON

the All Trades Unions

BY-ELECTION

Alliance miners' section Thursday, October 30

MINERS WERE

What next Help is urgently needed in the YOUNG

SOCIALISTS'

campaign for candidate

FRANK WILLIS

Please contact Central Committee Rooms for the Sa Milton Road. Swindor phone: Swindon 20570 Y.S. march miners? for Swindon

BETRAYED

LORD ROBENS, the candidate National Coal Board colemand orainst chairman, with Wilson and the By Peter Read backing WITH the Swindon by-election only two days threatened the miners with away, the Young Socialists nine months' cam- pit closures roduce a bit ationa their candidate for Frank Willis has paign they do not return to THE DECISION of the Yorkshire area council moved into its final stage.

work. of the National Union of Mineworkers to re- A 250-strong YS demon- The surfacemen's hours commend a return to work without the eight- stration marched through is a mater or princiole, lI hour for surfacemen is day more than just that low- swindon on saturday.

• SUPPORT THANK WILLS

intolerable another sell-out by a union leadership.

paid workers arauous Passers-by stopped conditions of work cannot It is one of the first By an industrial correspondent watch the

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS

millions marcers. hundreds fruits of the joint declara- 20-minute pose paid out 'Vote nave meal enly decided t carrying "of the indus- included the with the Confedera-

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placards. passed break manet mener or sued is be toug tion of British Industries through the shopping cen- eight-hour day-that is the site, whi O WILLIS Yor ot tois which stand of the miners. * men Jack jones, decide no intr eight-hour Victor Feather and others The slogans shouted: Behind their fight on the was in contact er Feath 'Wage freeze out! Willis in!

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GENERAL FRANCO, faz- cist dictator of Spain, has personally approved negotiations to secure the of the world return famous painter, Pablo IN EVERY capitalist country, the Stalinist parties ('Communist Parties') are in crisis. Certain leading mem- bers in the French Party have resigned, openly opposed the Party line, and there are known divisions at the top of the British and other Parties. But this is only a pale re- flection of the questioning in the ranks: militants walled off from Marxism for many years are trying to find ways of breaking out, in all corners of Western Europe. There is a reason for this: since the establishment of the temporary victory of Stalin- ism over Bolshevism in the Soviet State and the Com- munist International, which began in 1924-1925, and was completed on the world scale in 1933, Stal Ism has been the principal force for coun ter-revolution, the main pillar of the continued existence of capitalism. Now capitalism has entered a period of profound crisis and at the heart of this crisis is a strong and confident working class. Those bureaucratic forces which dominate the working class - Stalinism, social-de- trade union mocracy, the bureaucracy-rest on capital- ism's defeats of the working class, and so they also must go into crisis. Within the countries ruled by Stalinist parties, the work- ing class, as in Czechoslovakia, challenges the bureaucracy more powerfully than ever be- fore. Opposition Into the opposition bulletins in the USSR comes the voice of those who want to defend the conquests of October from bureaucracy, to overthrow the bureaucracy as part of a 'world October'. Trotskyism has existed, first and in the Left Opposition in the Fourth Inter- then national, as the force for de- Stalinism and build- stroying ing revolutionary leadership in the working class. The present crisis of Stalin- ism makes that task one which can now be completed. It must be done on the basis of the most principled struggle for Marxism, the firmest oppo- sition to Stalinism in all its forms. The revolutionary intransi- gence required for this task is required by Lenin like that and his followers when reform- its crisis after ism entered 1914 when the social-demo- cratic leaders supported their capitalists in the im- 'own' perialist war. There appeared then - in order to rescue reformism and prevent the construction of a new, . revolutionary inter- national - the centrist trends which worked for some middle- of-the-road solution. Fond of revolutionary they in fact covered phrases, up for the right-wing Social Democrats. All the time they hit out at the left, at Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks. There were, of course, at the same time, big forces in the working class moving towards revolution and more socialists also moving from reformism towards revolution. Picasso, his native to Spain. Picasso has always refused to return home until the re- moval or death of Franco.

His reactions to this latest in- vitation are as yet unknown.

Not involved in politics until The role of the middle-of- the-road people who called themselves 'Marxists' was to head off these left-moving forces and steer them back to reformism. Now, in 1969, Stalinism is being offered similar services by people who call themselves Marxists and even some who call themselves Trotskyists.

'New Left Review' The group of left-talking middle- intellectuals class wel- comed to the fold Monty Johnstone. Johnstone is an ex-official of the Young Communist League and Communist Party. Since 1956 he has advocated the policies and pro- right-wing grames of the Italian Commun- ist Party. Destroy With talk of 'structural re- forms' of capitalism and ac- cepting the framework of a 'democratic' state with capital- ist parties, the Italian CP has taken the idea of 'peaceful, parliamentary roads to social- ism' farther than any other Communist Party. helping the Johnstone is British CP along this road.

Like the Italian Stalinists, Johnstone a certain pays amount of attention to Trot- sky and Trotskyism-in order to destroy it. The technique is to adopt apparently honest and an liberal stance, to withdraw the grossest of Stalin's lies about Trotsky and then to use this mask of goodwill to distort and reject the struggle for which revolutionary politics was Trotsky's contribution to of Marxism and the history the working class. Johnstone and those like him are thus products of the crisis of Stalinism and at the same time conscious agents of Stalinism in turning their fire against the only force which can defeat it and build revo- lutionary leadership. The 'left' intellectuals and revisionists of all kinds principled abandon the struggle against Stalinism as the historical enemy of Bol- shevism. Instead, they work on im- pressions of the 'liberalization' and 'democratization' of Stalin- 'right' 'left' and ism, its tendencies, its possibility of changing into something better without being defeated. Within the Trotskyist Fourth International, revisionists have movement away from the movement away The 'Now Left Review' has welcomed into Its who projects the line of the Italian C.P. (abo Stalin's 'peaceful, parliamentary road to socl any other Communist Party.

Civil the outbreak of the War in July • 1936, Picasso commemorated the fascist bombing of the small town of Guernica with perhaps his most famous, if not greatest painting. During his exile in France, he was drawn towards the

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Abore: Bob Purdle, seen with Pat Jordan ( International Marxist Group, makes fawnin providing It with a left cover.

struggle against Stalinism and to provide it with a left cover of the type we have described.

Michel Pablo founded this revisionist tendency and this led to the split in the Fourth International in 1953. This led to the leader of his 1074 fin ga M000cos

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relcomed Into Its fold Monty Johnstone Italian C.P. (above) who have taken tary road to soclallam' policy further than

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came a sympathizer of the French Communist Party. As part of the bait to draw to Spain, the him back director-general of fine arts has promised that there ith Pat Jordan (right), both of the , makes fawning references to Stalinism, tendency at the time, John Lawrence, joining eventually Communist Party the after Khrushchev's speech. Now the latest representa- tive of this Pabloite tendency, which has several times tried unsuccessfully to get a footing this country against the Socialist Labour League, after Lawrence deserted, is International Marxist Group, monthly paper, publishing a 'International'. It was among those forming the Vietnam Solidarity Cam- paign and has as one of its members Mr. Tariq Ali. 'International', particularly in the persons of Pat Jordan and Bob Purdie, is now openly turning towards Monty John- stone and those like him in the Communist Party. This service to Stalinism is entirely in line with the inter- perspective adopted national by the 'Unified Secretariat' of which International Marxist Group is part. Purdie's latest article ('In- ternational', October 1969: 'For A Debate On • Trotskyism and "Revisionism"') goes even further than before. There is no doubt that the great fight- ing capacity of the working class in Europe is growing at a pace that it pushes such middle-class 'socialists' fright- ened to death, into the arms of the bureaucracy and of the bourgeoisie which stand be- it: Purdie presents the hind miserable spectacle of a so- called "Trotskyist' grovelling world be conditions imposed upon the painter if he chose to come home.

But the most cynical bribe of all is Franco's plan for a new £1,200,000 museum of modern art at the Madrid university. The fascist director hopes that on his belly before the Stalin- ists. Tim Wohlworth in an earlier article in "The Newsletter' showed that Purdie and the Pabloites dropping the were term 'Stalinist' in order to get away from Trotskyism and close to the Stalinists, pre- at a time when the cisely Stalinists must attempt their greatest betrayals and when the responsibilities facing Trot- skyists for actual leadership are far more urgent than ever before. Purdie says : It is here that we will admit a deep theoretical gulf between ourselves the Pabloites] and the Socialist Labour League. ..? He claims that by omitting the terms 'Stalinist' and 'coun- ter revolutionary' when refer- ring to the Communist Parties and the bureaucracy, his group does not change any of the principles of Trotskyism: con- demnation of 'peaceful co- , definition of USSR existence', as a workers' state, programme of political revolution in the states, workers' de- workers' mocracy. Difference The difference, he claims, is in estimation of the crisis reached by the Stalinist bureaucracy. In this, he says, quoting the resolution of the Pabloite International Confer- ence, are four main factors.

.. a slowing down of economic growth coupled with the detrimental effects "economic re- which the forms" of recent years have had for the masses; the crisis in the "world socialist camp", , that is, the crisis in the relationship between the workers' states and the Communist Parties; the bureaucracy's inability to a consistent ideo- develop logical line to take the place of the Stalinist doctrine; the the workers' impact on states of American imperial- ism's aggressive escalation, of the victorious resistance of the Vietnamese working masses, and of the revival revolutionary agitation and struggles in western Europe.' Purdie adds: ... The two factors which are of most relevance to this discussion are the ideological crisis, and the crisis of the relation- ships between the bureau- cracies. All this he says '. • • con- trasts so sharply with the monolithic bloc (sic) which Trotsky fought and analysed during his lifetime, that it would be a betrayal of the Marxist method to coast with the ideas and along attitudes formed 20 years ago. "The political questions which Trotskyists have to raise in relation to these parties altered, the have opportunities for Trotskyists ele- to influence and win ments within these parties has altered decisively in our favour, and the attitude of bureaucracies towards the Trotskyists has of neces- sity altered.' (Our emphasis.)

long quotation In this Purdie's politics are crystal- clear. He echoes the Unified Sec- retariat in ignoring the struggle of the working class and Marx- ist intellectuals as the principal 'factor' in the crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy. The 'four factors' are all of them seen through the eyes of the bureaucracy itself and its petty-bourgeois horizons: how 'consistency', how to to regain react to imperialism, how to 'economic' growth maintain without disturbing bureaucratic privilege, how to get back to the homogeneity of Stalin's day! All of these are, of course, problems, but they all arise from the pressure of the revo- lutionary force in Soviet society, the working class.

Elements of the bureaucracy the centrepiece of the en- tire display will be Picasso's "Guernica', which at own the moment is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The fascist regime in Spain disturbed is obviously at the prospect of the world's and the Communist Parties, in order to try and stabilize their position in relation to the struggle of the masses in East and West alike, adopt 'new' attitudes which they hope will endear them to the middle class, reformist and trade union bureaucratic forces everywhere. And so Purdie asks that we should all help them. Instead of exposing them with the weapons forged in Trotsky's struggle, Purdie says 'drop the Trotsky' ideas developed by who was writing in a 'contrast- ing' situation. The claim to 'new thinking', 'not coasting along with ideas of 20 years ago', has arisen in all past revisionisms, under the old slogans like, 'junk Trotskyism', 'face the new reality. According to Purdie, we must interpret the anti-Trot- skyism of Johnstone, not as a Stalinist reaction to the pres- sure of the working class and its demand for revolutionary as a symptom leadership, but of these 'new' opportunities and the 'changing attitudes of bureaucracies towards the Trotskyists. Despite acknowledging that Johnstone accepts 'socialism in a single country' and 'nowhere goes further than a liberal re- jection of the more distasteful era, aspects of the Stalin Purdie accepts Johnstone's re- jection of the Moscow Trials as a great opening, because it concerns • precisely those aspects which had prevented any real political discussion between partisans of the Com- munist Parties and of Trotsky- ism' We therefore cannot de- as an 'apologist nounce him for Stalinism'! that the We have shown apologist for Stalinism today must adopt the 'liberal' stance and further he must devote his attention to a more and more 'presentable' Trot- attack on skyism as the main enemy.

cannot explain Purdie still why Johnstone is the chosen advocate of the British Com- munist Party against Trotsky, along with the old-line servant of the bureaucracy, Betty Reid.

Broker Even though he claims the Unified Secretariat has not re- vised the Trotskyist theory of Stalinism, Purdie is in fact throwing it overboard and act- ting as the 'theoretical' broker for a new middle-of-the-road, pseudo-Communist grouping, helping the Stalinists out of their crisis. After saying that Stalinism is la precise scientific' term denoting the political line of the Soviet bureaucracy, Purdie goes on to reject the whole Trotskyist idea of Stalinism.

He says in passing that the Communist Parties have not 'as yet' broken from the Stalin- theoretical heritage, thus implying that they are on the road to doing so. Indeed he says later that: .. the (Communist) Party as a whole could be moved towards co-operating with the Trotskyists and other tendencies in work of im- mediate value to the British workers or the world revo- lution'. Here is the crux of the Purdie will say: 'co- matter! operation on particular issues does not contradict the view that they are tied theoretically to Stalinism'. is this 'theory'? But what Can it be that without aband- oning the Stalinist 'theoretical heritage' the Stalinists will carry out actions of immedi- value the British ate to workers or the world revolu- tion'? Here the worst kind of double talk is used to express counter-revolutionary revision- ism. 'We are not revising our Trotskyist estimate of Stalin- ism, you understand. • BUT, Stalinism can be made to carry out work of im- mediate value to . . . the Tuesday, October 28, 1969 living painter end- greatest bribe would be a real stab ing his days in exile (Picasso in the back for the rising 88 years old). of workers' and wave stu- dent's struggles build- now ing against Franco. up Picasso hurl this cyni- It is not just a question of art.

cal offer back the fas- in Vital political principles are cist dictatorship's face.

The at stake. of such a sition, let alone of the Fourth world revolution'! Most certainly the split in International, was abortive.

The defeats for which Stalin the Fourth International was and Stalinism were responsible absolutely necessary in order 1926 onwards break from the revisionism from were to of Pablo Germain, who simply the mistakes of a 'com- and be cor- told that Stalinism would munist movement' to us in be forced against its nature to rected within it, response carry out the world revolution.

to We in the Socialist Labour Purdie is the latest and rotten- Fourth Inter- est fruit of that revisionism, League and the coming to the aid of Stalinism national know where we are in its most desperate crisis.

going. We are building the kind of According to Purdie : Bolshevik-Leninist Party • a . in order to express Party—in all our national sec- the new dominant features tions in order to smash the of these (Communist) Par- Stalinists, to counter and to ties, organizational their defeat every move by those fragmentation and political like Johnstone who cook up a diversification, the term mixture of Stalinism and liber- "Stalinist" has lost its use- alism in order to confuse and fulness.... (Our emphasis.)

divide the advanced workers. 'diversity', Because of this Continuity he such terms as says, hrushchey "the apparatus" "the and communist move. We are training young Marx- ment" not only legitimate are and revolutionary cadres ists but scientifically necessary'.

in the trade unions to start A further, 'secondary' reason of from the continuity the for dropping the term 'Stalin- of Trotsky whole struggle ist' is that: against Stalinism and of Lenin 'Amongst wide layers of against Menshevism. new forces on the left, dissi- We know that Stalinism is dent elements in the CPs, in crisis because it is counter- "New Left", the and other revolutionary and clashes with non-Trotskyist Marxists [?], the resurgent working-class world. this terrent taken on quite movement all over the different meaning We will continue to oppose that traditionally used by with all our strength all those, the Trotskyists; for them it like Purdie and his mentors, Pablo and Mandel, who want refers solely to the period

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in the from the to wipe out the past struggles order triumph of Stalin over the of Trotskyism to opposition, to the 20th Con- whitewash the present. will be no successful gress.' There of Purdie gives the game away.

building the centrist up The 'diversification' and alternative which Purdie and 'fragmentation' are now for him Johnstone want, in order to Stalinism's crisis. 'the new dominant feature' of tide over the Communist Parties. with the revisionists of Purdies task not debate Stalinism, the characteriza- tion of these parties as counter- group, but to carry out a con- revolutionary, recedes sistent political struggle against now into the background or out of them, alongside our relentless existence altogether, and they fight against Stalinism. Tarlq All, another member, with Purdle, of the Internatlonal Marxist Group. again, together with When Purdie asks for a can once the Stalinist bureaucracy, be debate, he fools nobody. called the interests of - in When his group made its so 'scientific' necessity -'the com- reunification' called with the munist movement'! Socialist Workers' Party (USA) plicitly exchiding di sussion or 1963, of Trotsky- by ex- Can revisionism ism go any further ? outstanding political The Pabloites, when they questions. erected the theory that Stalin- The

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and the Inter- ist parties could be forced to national Committee asked that behalf of the take power on all the questions be discussed working class, called in ques- writing and in Conference in tion in effect the whole found- before any organizational steps ing of the Fourth International.

could be considered all, After the Stalinist parties were going to do the But the Pabloite revisionists before revolutionary rejected this that discussion othe grounds leadership, a new International, issues 1953 was built, why was it not cor- would be unneces- rect in the 1930s to abandon sarily divisive idea of a Fourth the Inter- Purdie knows as well as we do that the suppression of that national and continue to fight, as the Left Opposition did, for discussion has resulted, six USSR and the reform of the years later, in the degeneration Communist International ?

have analysed we As we have pointed out, on article. all the other issues Purdie goes He knows that the question much further, Stalinism is not, of of characterization Stalinism, for him, the the which split the essence politics of the Soviet bureau- 1953 movement in has re- as a 'split' and the Communist emerged cracy Parties, but only one phase of Inter- Pabloite their development, to be re- Conference. national placed by another, in which His demagogic requests for and fragment- diversification "debate' are a transparent are the 'dominant' fac- ation' device to cover up this whole tors. process and to avoid the If this the was he case hole fight of the Left Oppo

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Tuesday, October 28, 1969 Statement by the miners' section of the All Trades Unions Alliance

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the Midlands, Kent, and on the the executive, so- NCB, and introduce work- called 'left' around Daly, have control of the indus- ers' failed to prepare for the pre- try from top to bottom. sent struggle in any way.

They have never challenged • Suspend all pit closures: Ford and the right wing. the future of every pit to In fact, they have shared be decided by workers' in- power with the right wing in spection committees. There he NUM. Paynter, a life-long are thousands of miners capable of carrying out this member the communis Party, was complimented fot job. the smooth way that 216 pits • A scale of reducing were closed under the present hours of work as the an- Labour government. swer to redundancy. The Workers Press. organ • Suspend all interest of the Socialist Labour League payments on compensation and the paper of the All Unions Alliance, has Trades ex-owners. been the only paper to put • Nationalize under work- forward these policies and to ers' all under- expose the treacherous leader- ground and the ship of right-wing and all cast contracting, pro-Stalinist leadership.

distribution and mining

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members have been machinery manufacture. right in the front of the battle Nationalization must be to spread the strike and win made to work in the interests it. of the miners and the whole The Workers Press has be- The working class. struggle known the come among strikers the daily as paper which expresses their interests the way forward. and Around the policy for- put of the ward here, supporters Workers Press the mines are building ATUA sections and Socialist Labour League branches. The Young Socialists in the mining areas must build their through branches, caucaling the strike struggles new of Marxists. generation the building of this leadership which the key to winning the political battles by opened up this strike. It is as a by-product of this revolutionary struggle that the just demands of the surface workers be won, and in can no other way.

URGENT

Certain jobs urgently need done the election strike committees at each pit and in each area. Paynter Besides organizing the pick- begun in 1912-1926 must be chine sor feesh areas, spreadine completed; the defeat of 1926 strike and making avenged. necessary arrangements for miners have returned The social security, the committees forefront of the to the very need to do the following: struggle against the employ- • Picket colliery coal They ing class. are once stocks to get railwaymen showing the way to and drivers to black the beat back the old enemy, the coal. Tory Party. will need to fight • Organize meetings with They other workers all trade unionists in alongside in unions for socialist nationali- their areas for mutual sup- financial and other- zation of all big industry, un- port, and wise. der workers' control without compensation. Call the miners' upon The other major issue wives to organize commit- raised by the miners' strike tees for mutual aid the is the question strike-hit areas and to sup- leadership. port the strike. thousands of miners From • Answer the has Daly cry gone up: moranda and Ford! Resign! And the rest of the executive with you! It took for many years Will Paynter be revealed in his every miner true he deserted to colours when a government job. Daly can- hide behind the right- not wing majority on the execu- tive. was only because of the

PROMISED

strike that Robens and the conceded the government wage increase, which 27s. 6d. case five years out is in any of date and totally inade- quate. Daly, before he was elected secretary of the union, prom- ised action, even strike action, pit But he against closures. instructs the strikers now work, knowing full return to that to win this strike well would be the best, guarantee building up the miners' strength against pit closures. Instead, his call helps Robens' attempt to break the strike weaken and thereby the fight future against closures. He is helping Robens use the threat of ensures instead of fighting them.

the political lesson This is of the strike once again.

A fight on socialist policies, the only policies holding out any hope for miners, is ThA fight possible without for a new, socialist leadership in the unions.

STRENGTH

This leadership means a which Wilson's be- opposes Robens' and trayals, opposes the capitalists' distortion of nationalization, and joins with unions fighting those in other on the same policies to organ- ize the whole strength of the working class against the em- ployers and the Tories. Communist The Party in Miners do a dolagato meeting in Porti Wales, Yorkshire, Scotland, last week.

GROVELLING BEFORE STALINIS

• FROM PAGE TWO

tarians. Purdie and But now his dis- friends are faced with a daily fundamental theoretical Britain, Trotskvist in cussion. paper suported by strong forces Ever since 1953, the group the Young Socialists, and the which Purdie supports has de- trade traderful growth of the fore nounced the International unions; Committee and the

SLL

for of the International Committee and what they called "boring' in France; they see the fruits 'repetitive' appeals to build of the intervention of the sec- the revolutionary alternative tions the International leadership. Committee in Eastern Europe.

We were condemned as sec-

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905 n 1223 0 at 00 Bob . 1.45-1.53 News, Weather Jackanory. Wacky 5.44 B.a. aT. 5.50 Natonal Nash, 6:45 Cars. -Nationwide. 7.05 Tomorrow's World. 8.50 The employers any answer rese Yorksica Tory businessmen who are ional strike committee. , Wor • Call regular mass meet- if to sprake herdress 614s Di Midlands Today 600 of the strike dlands Today, Lou fresh forces, particularly the East, Weather, Nationwide. youth, into the organization Stewart—— 10.00-10.30 Jackie of the struggle. Champion. World 11.57 News No surrender! Summary and Weather. The eight hours, including meal-break, now! North of England: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Look North, Nationwide. 10.00- Sack Robens! There. Workers' 10.30 Somewhere Up control of the 11.57 Northern News Headlines.

mines ! Ford, Daly and the execu- Scotland: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Reporting tive - resign! Scotland. 10.00-10.25 Corrie Build in division the every Folk. 11.57 Scottish News Head- basis strike for lines. committee.

BY FRANK CARTWRIGHT

So the Royal Family's fear,

WHEN

international stars as big as Elizabeth, which any show business team in similar circumstances Charles and Anne Wind-. might share, that they were sor, Philip Mountbatten and Margaret Jones de- being over-exposed, was given headline treatment in all the cut down cide to on that's bourgeois press. appearances, usually the prelude to a Begun in 1932 by George V, big increase in publicity.

the Christmas broadcasts were British bour- of the Darl geoisie's attempt to deal with and the disastrous economic crisis of that period political Since then the only years didn't go when the show on were 1936, when the monarchy and its supporting cast in par- were a bit upset over liament the Duke of Windsor's most unprofessional behaviours, and 1938. This may, of course, be only a temporary relief; a new act script consult- is needed and ations about the new image will probably begin soon. Also as "The pointed out in Times' its most astute leader (October 21): 'The success of the television film the Royal Family, on which is to be shown again by BBC on the Christmas Day, must have made it easier to drop the familiar broadcast.

LAST

WEEK'S television carried another very informa- tive exercise. This time on 'Panorama'. The set-up in the studio was very revealing. Appropriately sharing one Robin desk were the chairman, Lord Day, Robens of the Coal National Board and Lawrence Daly of the National Union of Mineworkers. three Opposite them were ascending rows of chairs for Daly, Robens mine workers. Day had a micro and each in front of them; the phone miners had one between them, neating In Porthcawi, South Walee on an overhead boom. The battle began with the

STALINISM

big three each getting time to expound their positions. As opposed to this, those who denounced as us sec- tarians have ended up as a tiny group turning all its attention Then the miners weighed in to aiding Stalinism in over- - except that because there coming its crisis. were nine of them you could deal in a further We shall not really hear a lot of what and article with Purdie the was said. International Marxist Group's Stalinism Then Robens rejoined ; capitulation to in could hear bes rice ned and HO Chi with the connection Minh memorial clear but the miners who con- meeting in London on September 20. tinued to speak through the

WORKERS' PRESS

Northern Ireland: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Scene Around Six, Weather, Nationwide. 10.00-10.30 Speak Your Mind. 11.57 Northern News Headlines, Weather. Wales: 5.15-5.44 p.m. Telewele.

6.00-6.45 Wales Today, Weather, Nationwide. 6.45-7.05 Heddiw.

8.00-8.25 One Of The Family 8.25-8.50 Cadw Cwmni. 10.00- 10.20 Z Cars. 10.20-10.30 New . O'r Newydd. 11.57 View- point. at South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Today, Points West, South Spotlight South West, Weather, Free Nationwide. 10.00-10.30 For All. 10.00-10.25 Peninsula.

10.25-10.30 Points Of View. 11.57 South and West News Headlines.

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11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. The Question Of Pressures. 7.30 Newsroom, Weather. Floodlit Rugby Field: Keigh- 8.00 ley v. Hull Kingston Rovers.

Prince Charles In his own show-playing a pi The film sets a new standard tribut for presenting royalty to the Princ people. ...It is not enough for turn.

the Royal Family to be ex- posed to view: they have to come alive as personalities...• The task for the future must be to develop this [the film's] style of presentation... The efforts to sell the mon- archy this year have reached truly extraordinary propor- tions. Apart from the investiture show and the film there have been endless pictures and news coverage of our young trendy with-it Princess Anne and the Duke has been fully reported sounding off in his usual frank, forthright reactionary way.

In the past couple of weeks Anne has been seen a lot with horses on television and last Tuesday on the commercial channel we had the disgusting spectacle of the centenary Robana interruption were somehow too low to catch. This happened several times during the discussion. No miracle: simply a ques- tion of sound balancing. And of experience of tele- vision. Workers who appear in these programmes should be careful.

Though all the miners spoke 8.45 Jazz Scene. 9.10 Premiere: 'Winchester 73'.

10.45 Europa. 11.20 News Summary, Weather.

11.25 Line-Up. Thames 11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.45- 2.53 p.m. Schools. 3.25 Wild Bill Hickok. 3.55 Face Of The Earth.

4.15 News Headlines. 4.17 Paulus.

4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Junior Showtime. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News From ITN. 6.03 Today. 6.30 The Rifleman. 7.00 The Tuesday Fllm: 'The The Ghost Of St. Michael's. Wild 8.30 The Dustbinmen. 9.00 Who-Dun-It. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Wlld and Free-Twice Dally.

11.20 How About You? 11.50 Glving and Getting.

11.00 Yorkshire 1.45-2.30 11.00 a.m.12 noon Schools. 4.11 News Headlines. p.m. Schools. 4.13 The Tingha and Tucker Club. Out omplaying a parson in a untraratty ronue.

tribute Gandhi, where to Prince Charles did the star turn. Using Gandhi to the most ends despicable Charles solemnly urged the rejection of the use of violence against the forces of law and order. A fine combination of re- visionism and liberalism-that of the students' hopeless demonstrations and Gandhi's equally hopeless idealism-was used by the Prince as a weapon to attack revolutionary politics.

Describing all violent dem- onstrators as spoilt children, he was speaking to an assembly in the Albert Hall which con- tained Earl Mountbatten, Harold Wilson, most of the ambassadors in • London, a pro- minent posse of politicians and large sprinkling very turbans, saris and diamonds.

Again, full coverage all round. powerfully and made their re- jection of both Robens and Daly very clear, they did so against overwhelming odds.

Nine men all talking at once and seated close together is meant to look like a rabble: Workers should never forget that television belongs to the caiptalist class; they are only invited to appear in order to be belittled. The studio, the lights and cameras, will always be un- tamiliar to them and it is still alien territory. The rules were • the bourgeoisie invented by and as usual serve its interests best. Before agreeing to take par in such discussions all workers should insist on equal facilities and air-time; then, if the agree- men is broken during a live programme, they should ex- plain to the chairman that it is being broken and refuse to continue until the terms are met. Equally television technicians must do their best to ensure proper coverage. The sound balancer some- times has a big hand in such

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formby and 8.30 10.30 Westward 11.00 Schools. 1.45-2.53 Hubble Bubble. 4.15 News Headlines. Shole Hass Jun The Cow Me.

Gus Honeybun National Movie: do Then Sho Kime SteAks 5.50 News.

Showtime. Magple.

ES SO PAN

Top Of The World. 8.30 The Dustbin 6.30 Castle 11.50 9.00 er. lo.30. Wild and Wrec 10.00 en. Weather 11.20 Half Hour Story. Scottish Grampian 11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.45-2.35 4.20 Scotland Early. 4.30 untol howtime 2.00-2.55 hoos Schools. 10.05 So Maroons Vengene No toa Deal 9:00 Schools. Scotland 6.30 Western Valley' Robert Walker, Of Town. 6.35 Cross- FAce TWice Anglia Tyne Tees 10.58 a.m.-12 Schools. noon Schools. 4.10 Castle Haven. Doll 4.40 Paulus. 5.20 3835 C5 4.09 a.m.-2.55

CHOOS.

News.

SADORE

Headlines. 'Fort David 8.30 Phyllis Thaxter. The 9.00 Dustbinmen. Who-Dun-It? 10.00 10.30 Watty. i120 Wild Here Daily All Our After all the idea of workers themselves to death starving instead of fighting must be a pleasing prospect to the very whole of the capitalist class.

Then, just a few days later the were full of the papers fact that Anthony amazing Armstrong-Jones has a docu- film mentary going out on BBC-1 tonight. About that controversial subject film Gandhi the - pets — semi- promises to be another amateur attempt like the last one. 'In the light of the new Supported by some of the agreement between Equity [the BBC's most loyal professional and the actors' union] com- production talent and buoyed mercial companies, which vir- up by some of its best tech- tually insist that all perform- nical staff, Mr Jones has ob- ers shall be members of their viously had a very interesting appropriate union, it really is time-this time at the licence of time that the whole lot payers' expense. them at least applied for their tickets! They All in all not a bad week for must surely be biggest showbiz family the Royals. the Bebe Daniels and Ben And, as one television man since put it to this column: Lyon!' and

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PAGE FOUR

ORGANIZED bulding workers in Liverpool are to hold a half-day token stoppage today to lobby the Workers' Press reporter North-West conference of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers in Manchester.

Several sites, including the Hospital and Cantrell

B.S.R. GIRLS FORM SOLID

Farm sites are expected to lake part in tne acuon, meet on called by the Merseyside

AGAINST S

site stewards' committee.

The lobbyists will be de- manding the rejection "Chey s nst pok ce att acke aciously against police now in Siiride Scoitan workers rress correspondent negotiation and the employers. MASS MEETINGS will be held this week in London's ory seses houst th ta. enclosed docks facing the threat of the employers' Devlin Phase Two proposals. demanding Ine quesuon nours ano wages separates

PROTEST

em- the unions and the Peter Shea, I'Workers pluyeis P..

ACTION

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Cenion celicia sore iro posing By an industrial correspondent yorker ernment departments. HAY'S whart dockers on th up behind the BSR strikers.

muth series rone Lay stiles Targets Bv our industra repone The 460 men are protestin DELEGATES of London's 4,800 firemen will Bor 10 hoy vote tomorrow whether or not to begin an all.

likely omp mist is though out strike over pay and conditions.

working practices Al a mass meelng or po esigh labour costs ave been agreec Thursday the men agreed Thd ders iha to begın normal working Opposition the only wat ins duties on Mondav his means refusing to clean out stations and jobs, but does not affect the scheme vici be producivity etime tring tor The stewards say: tant lessons for all dor he Royal docks me dae ollowing th phe whole Devin Two jobs Many of them have to trave

MINERS BETRAYED

to do two jobs because of the low pa th che.

• FROM PAGE ONE

the on accommodatio. he tull aor é claim only by Te nehre cic hey meetin. (October 20) house Yonk tic ana im orta purchases b! , lending a deposit at curren problems and chat te aroben some pits were weakening.

guarantee siht hours New force the temt hat ise 2 wcn ig ne sort yo. Uctobe However, a new ate ds ha centlemen coave got * Deyer senins of lonec reckon with. Jeered offei of the strike cor that aft eging a political fight again wa failed to ke ch agres ment wiad aryate asp ape council mem area co nil metin gained ?

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NURSES DISC

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FOUR

HUNDRED

dele- ment : the Royal Colleg gales worker pressure rom beton, t0 de •bran ies in distere Harrouse last wesk palels bonu Nursin! s. "Tese eded on F retiected the bolling Fecile sehind isit-winket content in the nursing pro Fessin wh en hey Tis ons or pise ele ail er sinersish sine More fight , impros to prepare for the next one ne As-hou They al t get mhe fight ardes. in the all ine NuM who able students ined By an education reporter Picted and ila o pend th haTins che Con to alons he o e "University Colles oner of con milte mich number policy for hodesia and Soni rance on Nednes It is qued aP Mariborough redena i on or Lond magi strested and uder udent, men DaCk ton Prison for a week. umresily pr nc pal

SOVIET UNI

By Robert Black ACCORDING TO reports from oppositionist groups in Moscow, three Soviet naval officers have been arrested after organizing resistance to the Stalinist regime. The who sources, are associated with the 'Initia-

SOLID PICKET

tive Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in the Soviet Union' said the

INST SCABS

three officers were part of larger civilian a much organization. They were arrested in Tallinn, capital of the Estonian Soviet Republic while preparing an appeal to the people', a programme calling for the restoration of democratic the rights in Soviet Union. Search 11: 2 The same sources informed

KILNANAN

western correspondents Moscow that hundreds of others have been questioned and had their houses searched.

Investigations are also under officers, way naval allions cadets and students in the Khabarovsk, Baku, ports Leningrad, Riga and Perm.

If this latest information is correct, then it is ycl more proof that the bureaucracy is tightening the screws on the oppositionist move- ments in the Soviet Union.

NGUYEN VAN THIEU, 'president' of the Saigon puppet regime, has been hit by the defection of one of the main National supporters of his six-party Social Democratic Front'. First pulled together two pessimism of ruling circles in Saigon, which now has to face months ago, this hotch-potch of various political cliques was the fighting prospect of on provide the mass the National intended to "one against basis for Thieu's regime after Liberation Front. the bulk of the US forces now Khanh and many others like stationed Vietnam de- him in are now hedging their parted. bets, preparing themselves for One the Front's a situation in which they hope more 'liberal' members, Trinh Quoc to form the right wing of a Khanh, wrote to Thieu on coalition with the

NLF.

he Thursday stating that thought the kront served no useful in national

STRIKE JAMS

put pose politics. 'We longer no want to Front's attend the meetings because we think they do not A 24-HOUR public transport lead anywhere. All we do is strike hit Italy Friday. on discuss the Huge meet, national traffic jams built up in situation and then leave!'

all the main towns as This defection, and the thousands tried to get to work reasons given for it, reflect the by car. •

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to quash the suspensions and the men returned to work on with the piete negotiations Saturday afternoon. riggers that the process SO The swift action of the fur- of relieved this the nacemen reveals tension dangerous work. building up in the plant.

Meanwhile No. 2 furnace stands cold. The men are becoming more 'The pipes are made of and their angry over moTe heavy conflicts iron lined with brick with the national and men's fight we back the leadership of the National Union of full, Blastfurnacemen. to the committee mem- bers declared. Their militant mood ex- The management has agreed Thursday ploded when secretary Jim Barry national visited the plant.

S DISCONTENT

A demonstration of furnace- men forced him to slip into a back door of the offices.

OURS AND PAY

The demonstrators, far from silently 'protesting', almost came to blows with Barry and two ex-delegates Jack Jones But the College's and Dai Hunt. ultra- conservative leadership is de- The national executive termined that the nurses' still refusing to recognize the me level of should remain on 26-man lodge committee, and protest. committee members are bitter that this Miss Catherine Hall, RCN union dispute was dragged in front of the man- general secretary, said : agement by Barry. 'We will strike, but not Meanwhile the management we will leave no one in doubt has aggravated the situation that we mean what we say.

by keeping of the earnings The time might come, she furnacemen down through said, when it would be neces- cutting back on production organize a mass lobby sary to since the recent big strike.

which would con- in nurses The use of steel imported Westminster an verge on from the US has meant an 'orderly and organized' man- average reduction of £5 ner. week. The furnacemen's dispute Not left out confirms the of the lessons dustmen's and miners' strikes, The time has indeed come that today the fight oVeT for action on nurses' pay and wages and conditions cannot hours, not to mention work- be separated from the fight ing conditions. for a new political leadership At a time in the trade unions. The ATUA today leads that workers are fight. struggle for higher locked in the wages, nurses must not allow themselves to left be Registered. with the

GPO

Workers behind. newspaper. Published Street, They can and should call of all trade on the support just and 180b Capham H for their unionists long over-due demands. Tuesday, October 28, 1969

IET UNION

1 PUBLIC decree by th -Kremlin entral Committee Soviet Communist Party has nnounced measures to sav speaks bout £8,800 million ove the next year. out The statement, published in all Friday's newspapers, com- plains of bureaucratic wastage and duplication of work. By a foregn correspondent It also calls for the reduc- tion of 'unnecessary junket- their ing' predecessors, are at the lower ranks Party and state apparatus, and Directives might even be the prelude to Such 'attacks' on bureau- a shake-up in its personnel.

cracy are as old as the Soviet Kremlin banquets for visit- bureaucracy itself. capitalist 1ng will statesmen These directives, like all continue as before.

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strations, in which several layers of the working class, workers were killed, the rural workers and women, government had to retreat and and the that conflicts this begin a new turn towards the shift to the left in the Catho- reformists. lic has produced There. is, in fact, the Christian Democratic bination possible which can party itself. provide stable majority Now historic decision government for the Italian faces the Italian ruling class ruling class. and its representatives in the Every permutation has been Christian Democratic Party. and all of them tried, have created more problems than Contributions they solved. Each alliance with the Should it continue to search leaders of the reformist for what it calls 'the opening workers' parties produces new to the left' (a coalition with splits within their ranks, as the socialist parties or even the working class moves into the Stalinists), should or it action the front wages opt for an 'extra-parliamentary against its own leaders sitting solution' through the army in the government. the lines of the 1967 Greek The Stalinists naturally coup? view these new developments If we look at the possible Christian-Demo- within the parliamentary combinations, with a highly-trained crats together with their probable opportunist eye. the reper cussions working In the Party paper 'L'Unita magnitude class, the of the for last Thursday. they once clearer. dilemma becomes again advanced their claim as Present composition of the obvious partners in Italian Assembly : coalition government. future Seats This, of course, would be Christian Democrats 265 based retormist solution Communists 177 round of upon a new con- Socialists (Left-Wing) 62 cessions to the working class.

Liberals 31 Without this, Stalinist par- United Socialists (Right ticipation in the government Wing) 29 would be very hard to sustain, Neo-Fascists 24 encouraging clashes between Proletarian Socialists 23 the bureaucracy and the rank- Republicans and-file party workers. Monarchists 6 This has, fact, already In begun in some areas. Total 626 Recent attempts to form a Resistance 'centre-left' coalition between the Christian Democrats and The stiffening of resistance the socialists split led to in amongst the big monopolies with the the reformists' ranks, workers' to the wage demands right-wing rump becoming Indicates that the ruling class even more discredited in the is not thinking along these eyes of the working class.

lines at all. This indeed is the essence If the Christian-Democrats of the problem. agreed work The Christian Democrats an strategy to fight the working cannot rule alone. class, then other forces will They need the support of have to be found. at least 51 other deputies. The role of the military They can be sought on the could easily become decisive, left or amongst the extreme as in Greece in April 1967. Liberals, right-in the The 'Association of Fighting Monarchists and the fascists.

Officers' has publicly stated: "The domestic situation Options leads us to think of the even- It is this variety of options tual possibility that the armed that has produced the splits forces will have to go into socialists within not only the action to defend democratic the Christian-Democrats. freedom and the constitution.'

but The right-wing group will While Stalinists offer not countenance an alliance themselves as props for a dis- with the let alone socialists, integrating parliamentary the Stalinists, while the Moro system, the ruling class begins group (now joined by two de- its search for more direct fectors from Rumor's camp) methods of attack the on remember 1960 when working class. Fascist-Liberal-Christian De- The new content of the de- mocrat government under veloping the situation is in- Tamberoni aroused bitter hos- stinctive rejection of compro- tility in the working class. mise solutions by both the After nation-wide demon- ruling class and the workers. On eve of L.P. conference

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